Grrr

I don't really want to post the whole story of what happened, but I will give a little more detail so you guys don't have to be left wondering.

After IM conversations and hanging out, etc. I go out to the bars with this guy last night and I was really not doing anything further than I would do hanging out with ANY group of friends. I mean, I can be touchy, but I was even holding back from that. I mean, I was very much hoping something would come out of it, but for once I was being a good girl and listening to Brian and not forcing anything other than friendship. I'm proud of me. So.....he walks me back to my house. I'm not expecting anything to happen, but he comes upstairs with me. I'm STILL not expecting anything to happen. Then (I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!) he starts kissing me. Etc. Then we go to sleep. Wake up this morning. He instigates things AGAIN. Then proceeds to freak out. I'm thinking he's freaking out cause it's too soon for stuff and whatever so I'm trying to convince him it's ok. Then he says....."I have this girlfriend thing in Michigan. For like 3 years."

WHAT!!!! THE!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!! Yeah. That's my story. I'll still be his friend if he wants to hang out. However, had he just mentioned this girlfriend thing in the first place I wouldn't have had the hope in the back of my mind that maybe something good would happen to me. I could have accepted that he and I would just be good friends. I would have known that. But now....now I will always have the lingering "what if" in the back of my mind and the wondering what the hell that was all about.

That's my story. Brian and I are getting married. Someday. He's the only boy I've cared about that's never let me down. He's my mainstay. I've realized this through all of that. So....yep. That's how it is.

Hugs!

More to come...probably

Ok...so. Possibly more detailed post later. But for now, suffice it to say.....boys suck, life sucks, and I hate everything.

Also....we have once again reaffirmed Sari's Jack-o-lantern theory. Which is..........
Men are like Jack-o-lanterns. All the cute ones are either taken or they had something scraped out of their head with a spoon.

Sometimes BOTH!!!!!

Christ that's a lot of Children

So yeah I figured out that 42 middle schoolers in a classroom probably smaller than anyone I had in high school is a fuck of a lot of kids in too small of a space. I mean christ I like children and all but i don't like being practically pressed up against them in a sweat box of a room. Granted the room has the absolute best technology that I have ever scene in a class room. We're talkin' computers, DVD, VHS, all hooked up to a projecter. Also printers, nigh surround sound speakers and a nice old elmo to top things off. Seriously I wish it was bossible for them to build a bigger school with less tech. So yeah also incase anyone cares I am teaching some of the 1st grade and 3rd grade middle school classes, some, and I still have almost 950 studetns combined between all the classes. There will be many a poor nameless child this semester. Ok...rant done....apollogies....everyone should win the lottery and then come and visit me.

hey John!

remember when you told me to take Limnology with Dodson way back when we had Algae class together?.....well, i'm taking your advice to fufill a dumb req. for my Bio major............................................so.........if you still have your book, can i have it?

;)

and do you remember when the September fieldtrip was? I have a wedding to go to the last weekend of Sept., and the first fieldtrip is sometime during then.....

thanks!

a step in some sort of direction~

Hey guys, just thought i'd let you in on something pretty crazy~

Well, i got asked to MC the 6th annual Asian Youth Baseball Championships opening ceremony...it's in Incheon, Korea this year...

Me and this super famous baseball sportscaster (he's the guy) and me (lil' ol' me!) will be the two tops MCing the event at a hotel... him in korean, and me in english...

I don't even know how I got to do it, or how they even knew about me, but i'm guessing it has something to do with a friend I have who's organizing the volunteers for the tournament...

well, high school baseball is pretty huge in Asia, and all of the big games are televised and stuff, so i'm pretty excited...

and SCARED~! what do i wear and i have to get my makeup and hair done!!! MY GOSH~ i also have to take a half day of work off to go (but shh! that's a secret! hehe)

but yeah, so MCing events... not really my calling, buy u never know who's gonna be at one of these shindigs! gotta remember to bring plenty of business cards... it's not necessarily a step in the right direction, but it's definitely a step somewhere~

Ow, my pride

Yes, I went surfing again yesterday, and got the crap pummeled out of me by the ocean.

So I didn't know this, but apparently in surf ettiquette if a "good" surfer gets on a wave before you do, you're supposed just fall off your board or something and get out of his/her way. Which explains why when I went for the first time some asshole thought it perfectly reasonable to swing around next to me just as I was catching a wave and push my board out of his way. For the record, i think this unwritten rule is total crap.

I guess it's also perfectly acceptable for13yrold surf-snobs to heckle you for swimming back to shore with your board rather than riding it back bcz you're just too damn tired to do anything else. ("what's with the raft?! can i borrow your raft?! whaddaya need that raft for?! blah blah can't seem to move away from the word 'raft!' if only i weren't so damn retarded!")

All the same, I had a lot of fun. The beach was gorgeous and and I used a stronger sunblock (altho i still got a little burnt on my cheeks). One of these days I'll show those little brats what for . . .

A New Level of Low

Today, I'll be calling in the first prevaricated sick day of my life. What am I playing hookey to do, you ask? I'm going to see Neil Diamond with my dad. I may visit my grandmother earlier in the day. Strangely enough, I only know two Neil Diamond songs.

WHEEEEEEE!!!

So, I just got done hanging out with my new friend (ie the hot boy I've alluded to earlier) for like 4 and a half hours!!! He's SO awesome. Bito was witness via im last night of his awesomeness. It went something like.

Him: So, when are you free to do something tomorrow
Me: Well, I pretty much need about 2 hours to watch anime with my friend Steph sometime between noon and 9, other than that I'm free.
Him: Ok. What are you watching?
Me: Paranoia Agent. We have to finish it, we're on the last DVD. It's been confusing so I hope they wrap it up well.
Him: I can watch anime with you if you don't mind.

MIND?!?!?! Damn boy. Why the hell would I MIND? He ASKED me if he could watch anime with me and then acted as though it might inconvenience me. The Japanese are a confusing people. Oh, I could have kissed him on the spot for that one. But I didn't cause the Japanese are a confusing people.

Any rate, he did come over and we talked about various things and then we watched 2 episodes of Samurai Champloo (WHICH he really likes!!!) and then we hung out and talked about things some more. Man. I hope he calls me or something to hang out more. I mean, I don't want to initiate all our hanging out....gives me a complex. He told me to call him if I want to go out or anything. I hope he calls me too. Any rate, he gave me a hug when he left. So, that's a good thing if anime has taught me anything about the social relationships between members of the opposite sex in Japanese society. (A la Peach Girl if any of you are familiar with that....if you aren't, I have it, you can borrow it) Hugs are something you don't get to do until much further into the relationship.

Man...he's so God Damn good looking too. Jesus fucking Christ!!!! I REALLY want him to call me. We have to finish Samurai Champloo at the very least!!!!!!! Oh. My life is a good one right now. Now if only I had a job..........

SUCH a Loser

It's Saturday night, and my plans of going to Emily's friends' party are spoiled by finding out that Emily isn't going to be there for most of it. Well, this wouldn't be a problem if I had a phone, probably. So, now I'm going to sit at home by myself and watch the Flaming Lips music video DVD I bought. Well, I won't be entirely by myself - there's always Jonas. I've nicknamed him Jo Jo III to comfort myself over my cat, Jo Jo II, having stayed in Milwaukee. Why am I bothering to tell you all this? Because I am very bored.

Today's experiment.....FAILED

So, guess who no longer has the job she assumed would still be there waiting for her after she worked there for 3 and a half years. That's right...ME!!!! Hooray. So I bike ALL THE WAY TO THE VET SCHOOL today and I go in to see my boss (who told me when I left that if I needed a job and I wasn't a student she would go so far as to CREATE an LTE position for me) and she's all acting like I'm not getting my job back like I assumed I would. So....that sucks. Now I have no job. Especially since the people from the Nature Conservancy who had a job that would make me like 80 bucks a week TOPS haven't even called me back. And so, I join the throngs of us on this blog who are unemployed. It's weird, cause it's been a few years since I was unemployed and the last time I wasn't paying rent cause it was the summer and I was living at my parent's house. So, not sure how I'm paying the $410 a month for rent and 10 for cable and 50 for phone. I guess I could take donations. Or go back to whoring except do it for money this time and not for crack. But I don't really want another little Hagen to deal with....one is bad enough! Yeah, Bito and I can now apply for lab jobs together, or I can temporarily at least sell my soul to the retail corps. I filled out 3 applications today. Which brings me to potentially assuming the role of captain bad-idea. Two things I pose as questions to you all: 1. If I got fired from Urban Outfitters because I couldn't work enough hours cause I had 18 credits and a 15 hour a week job besides theirs, is it ok for me to now reapply knowing full well that I have nothing but time to work there for a while? Or, since they fired me is that TOTALLY off limits regardless of the fact that I didn't get fired for doing anything inherently wrong?
2. So I got an application for GAP on State Street. Now, some of you know this, but not all, but the boy I like happens to work there. HOWEVER! I didn't get the application because I knew the boy worked there, I got it because I think there's a good chance that if they have a job opening they will give it to me. I'm more than qualified and I'm more than their type of employee. So....thoughts on all of this????

Ok, but Bito is right and I should talk to the people in the forest ecology lab in plant path. Yay for forest ecology!!! Or potentially I can find a job at the arboretum, though this may mean more of the same things I faced this summer. Or else, forest products lab where I will watch millions of dead trees go by me every day. So....yep.

Any thoughts at all are much appreciated!!!!! Or if you happen to know of a job for me I'd appreciate that too!

Dentists R Us...I hate you

So, I went to the dentist today and it sucked. We switched places from our nice cozy family place to this huge dentists r us place. So, my appts were 11:30 and 12 and they take me at 11:30 and then tell me my cleaning is in an hour at 12:50. This means that they totally just changed the time on a whim from noon to 12:50. So I'm there for like 3 hours. And my cleaning was pretty much a straight hour of the lady scraping all the fucking enamel off my teeth and pretty much trying to separate my gums (which bleed easily and a lot and I WROTE this on my health history thing which they OBVIOUSLY didn't read) from my teeth with the sharp poky metal thing. And all the while she tells me that I need to keep my gums healthy and that if I let all this stuff build up that it will be constantly making my gums irritated and inflamed. All I can think of at this point is "no lady, YOU'RE constantly making my gums irritated and inflamed." And then she's like, there's a lot of bleeding (Me: No SHIT! Stop jabbing at me!), I think once I get done your gums will feel a lot better. (Me: Probably not considering they didn't hurt in the first place and now every inch of them has been stabbed.). So yeah, after a TEETH CLEANING I feel like I just got my braces tightened. I now understand why people hate going to the dentist. I've never had a problem with them before in my life until now. So yeah...fuck everybody!

why would they show us that?

Now far be it for me to complain about what my South Korean hosts choose to show me to demonstrate they're culture while I'm at this training shindig of there's, but I'm just wondering if perhaps they made could've chosen something with a bit less old man sex. To explain; yesterday, that would be wednesday evening as I write you from the future on Thursday morning, we were shown a film about a famous artist from the 19th century. Now the movie was well made, it gave us some great info and a rather interesting historical figure, the artist Ohwon. Also you could gather a lot of South Korea's history during the era of the piece. So, in this vein the movie was quite good, and informational. My only complaint was the fact that there were three rather explicit, nigh hardcore sex scenes, with an actor who must have been in his late 50's or early 60's. I'm sorry but being of a shy and blushy nature I don't want to see anyone having sex, let alone someone older than my parents...it just kind of makes me not want to eat dinner, which might I add I did not.

Oh, I suppose I should introduce myself. Hi I'm Brian I'm friends with Steph, Bito, and Sari. I pro'ly know a couple more of you, but I didn't take the time to research who all posts to this wonderfully amusing blog. I'll be teaching in South Korea for atleast the next year so hopefully there will be some tales. Anyway I'll shut up now, and leave you all in peace.

CABLE??? REALLY??!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YES!!!


YES YES YES YES YEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!

When they came to fix my internet, they reconnected the cable tooo!!!

SUUUUUUHHHHWEEEEEEEEETTTTT!!!!

I CAN WATCH THE DAILY SHOW!!! ADULT SWIM!!!!

LAW & ORDER!!!!!

Thank you Jesus for making it ok to steal so long as it's for the greater good!

~j

The Return of the 12-call Stalker

Ok everyone—most of you already know the story about my stalker….let’s call him "Sam".

(fading into the past music….dooddeeeddooeeee)

The story starts about a year before I went to Scotland, when I randomly ran into “Sam” walking around the UW Madison campus. See, when I was in high school in Sun Prairie, I had a huge crush on Sam, but didn’t have the guts to ask him out at all. Now, years later and at the college level, I felt way more comfortable with myself and took this opportunity to ask Sam out.

Sam and I dated for about….2 weeks before I decided that we shouldn’t date anymore…for several reasons…one of them being that Sam never had anything interesting to say…..at all.

Anyways, I do the passive-aggressive thing and just stop responding to Sam’s phone calls(I know, I know, I should’ve been more direct)…and that works just fine. We stop communicating, and as far as I know, we’re not seeing each other anymore.

Months later I run into Sam and he starts calling me again…this time I don’t return any of his phone calls at all…..eventually he calls me 12 times without me returning single one…finally I e-mail him and ask him to stop calling, as I wasn’t interested in dating him anymore, and anyways, I was going to Scotland. He responds, sounding a little hurt, but says he gets the message, and stops calling me.


(return to the present music…deeedooooddeedooo)

So, anyways, as the union last night, I saw Sam, and avoided him…..only to have him run up to me later in the night and be all, “hi steph ! how are you?! Wanna go out for a drink?”……at which point(now remember, I’m quite intoxicated at this point) I say yes, and then go off to meet with my friends at a table….at which point I relate all this information to said friends…and after getting advice from them, decided to tell “Sam” that I was too tired to go out for a drink. At which point, Sam gives me his business card and tells me to call him later that week.

The next day, I get this e-mail(copied and pasted for your viewing pleasure):
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Hey Kiddo,

It was good seeing ya last night. It occurred to me that instead of making you send me an email to my work address, it'd probably be just easier if I sent you my new one. So, yep - here it is.

Hope you had a good time yesderday and in Chicago today. In case I don't catch you before classes start back up, have fun!

“Sam”
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…..What do I do? It seems like history is repeating itself…..

Of dinosaurs and the Flood

Hi guys. This is Jess speaking for Andy again, as he never seems to find time to post. All that talk of road-tripping to the Creation museums of America got us really horny to re-visit the very one we lost our creation-museum virginity to: the Museum of Creation and Earth History in good ol' Santee, CA.

Luckily for us, this time around there was a tour group, which we followed for about 20min before Andy couldn't take it anymore and called the tour guide on his bullshit. Go Andy!!! Here, let him recount the story from here:

The creationists conversation game! The following are six accounts of different parts of conversations with several creationists. Some of these coversations are partly true; other parts are false. But it is all okay, because what I learned from the creationist museum is that it's ok to lie, for as long as the person you are lying to is going to hell. Since I know everyone who is likely to read this blog, it is safe for me to lie. The fun part is to determine which is a lie and which is the truth.

Cast:

Creationist 1: The tour guide. Middle aged and balding.
Creationist 2: Heavy set middle aged woman. White, so very white.
Creationist 3: To protect the innocent I will not use his real name, so I will just call him by a randomly selected codeword: "Ignorant." (For a physical description of him, just find your nearest Abercrombie and Fitch catalog and turn to the idiot page.)
Creationist 4: The only accurate description I can give is a black Kirk Cameron.

Evilutionist: Tall (relative), hairy dwarf who hasn't slept well in a month, who also happens to have a very fine ass.
Evilutionist's Girl Friend: Hot.

Part I

Creationist 1: "You know up in Montana they found a discovery that blows evolution clear out of the water. There was this Tyrannosaurus...... one of the largest found today. But there was nothing too exciting about it until they cracked open one of the leg bones. Guess what they found?"

Evilutionist (thought): Jesus?

Creationist 1: "They found soft flexible tissue. They actually found fresh blood. It doesn't take a genius to realize that this bone couldn't have been millions of years old. This made the CNN and all the other big media, before the evolutionists covered it up. They have not talked about it, because they know that this evidence supports creation and not the millions of years of evolution. This is some of the best evidence that exists for a global flood and rapid burial.

Evilutionist: "I have a question. Did you read the paper? The authors state that in no way did they find fresh blood. They found fossil traces of fossilized remnants of what appears to be veins and blood cells."

Creationist 1: "I'm not going to get nit-picky."

Evilutionist: "But they didn't find fresh blood."

Creationist 1: "This isn't a debate forum. I could spend hours explaining where you are wrong."

Creationist 2 (Given the evilutionist an evil eye): "None of us are scientists. We just came here to learn, so stop asking questions."

Evilutionist: "But they didn't find fresh blood, or soft tissues!"

Creationist 1: *sigh* "I'll give you that."

*waves of distrust flow from tour group towards Evilutionist*

Part II.

Creationist 1: "We know dinosaurs and people lived together. its in the bible."

Evilutionist: (thought) Ok, this should be interesting.

Creationist 1: "There are two places in the bible where dinosaurs are described. Evolutionist will have you brainwashed into believing that Dinosaurs lived for millions of years before Adam, but all evidence suggests otherwise."

Evilutionist: Confused. Too much bullshit too fast, yet no facts given to support claims. Must try to refute claims, but can not correct facts if no facts are given!

Creationist 1: "Ancient people knew about dinosaurs. They just called them dragons. All over the world, there are accurate descriptions of dinosaurs referred to as dragons. In the bible it mentions Behemoths with tails like cedars. Only dinosaurs have tails like cedars."

Evilutionist: (Starting to shake) Too much. Listening to this is making me dumber. It's like a secret weapon.

Creationist 1: "There was on old king, Beowulf. He was a real man. He became famous for killing dragons, until one killed him at the ripe old age of 80."

Evilutionist: Ahhhhh!!! He's using folk-lore and myths as scientific support! It so wrong, I don't know where to begin! My brain hurts. I think its starting to bleed.

Creationist 1: "People believe that there are some dinosaurs alive today. In Africa the pygmys have a creature they call mok-ele-mbembe. It is a has a cedar-like tail, its about the size of an elephant. It has a long neck, eats plants and lives sometimes in the water."

Evilutionist 1: What? He's using his ultimate secret weapon! A fake myth made up by a Germann explorer at the turn of the century, based on old information now known to be false. Sauropods aren't aquatic!!!!! The Congo is a fairly well studied eco system. Must shut down logic centers and higher brain functions.

Creationist 1: "Pygmy children tell stories of their friends being hit my mok-ele-mbembe's tail and being smashed. Watch out for his cedar-like tail (Swooshing sound, followed by squishing sound.)

Evilutionist: (On the floor convulsing. Possibly swallowing his own tongue.)

Creationist 1: "And dinosaurs breathed fire."

Evilutionist: (Head explodes.)

Luckily a unicorn and the Pilsbury Doughboy used their black magic to bring the evilutionist back to life, and give him a golden toasted color.

Part III. This part takes place in in the middle of a conversation about, well I don't know. The conversation never stayed on a single topic.

Evilutionist: "Creationism goes against everything we know about how the physi......"

Ignorant: "Well our very existence breaks the laws of physics. How can the neutrons of the atom be held together if opposite charges repel each other?"

Evilutionist: "It's called the strong atomic force. It's one of the fundamental forces in the......."

Black Kirk Cameron: "Do you believe that lying and killing are wrong? All societies believe that."

Evilutionist's girl friend: "I believe that justifying ones faith by......."

Ignorant: "Our atoms should just be flying apart! Science can't explain it. Science claims to have the answers, but these are all just theisms. They have no proof."

Evilutionist: The strong atomic force holds the atom together. It along with the electromagnetic force, weak atomic force and gravity are the four.........

Ignorant: "Well those are just theories. They put human feet on a monkey."

Evilutionist: "Let me explain Parsimony fossil reconstruction to you. And how you can .....

Black Kirk Cameron: "Do you believe that Jesus walked on water, or turned water into wine?"

Evilutionist's girl friend: "Those would be miracles--a supernatural manifestation of God! Any attempt at scientifically explaining that would be inherently wrong. But that is what creationism is attempting to........."

Ignorant: "Cambrian explosion. Science can't explain the Cambrian explosion!"

Evilutionist: "Well, lets talk about the Cambrian explosion then, and why the creationist account .....

Ignorant: "Evolution is the foundation of Nazism and Communism."

(At this point the evilutionist catches on fire.)

Ignorant: (To Evilutionist's girlfriend about the now burning evilutionist) "He seems jumpy and condescending."

Evilutionist's girl friend: "Well, you never let him finish a sent......"

Ignorant:"Evolution is just another religion. We didn't come from rocks."

Again, by the power vested in the Pillsbury Doughboy and his trusty unicorn, Rainbow, the evilutionist is saved.

Part IV

Evilutionist: "Can you give me one example were you think evolutionists are lying to you?"

Black Kirk Cameron: "Do you believe that lying is wrong? Do you believe that killing is wrong? Do you believe in the bible?"

Evilutionist: "What I believe about lying is irrelavent to the topic. I'm saying that creationism and this museum are spreading false information. Again, I'll ask you: What specifically about evolution do you believe is factually incorrect."

Black Kirk Cameron: "I don't come from a monkey!"

Evilutionist: "Well, that's correct. You're an ape. You have no tail, and you've got fingernails, and nipples on your chest. And evolution says you evolved from a common ancestor, not from modern primates. That's why you share these traits with other apes. So what facts can you use to support creationism?"

Black Kirk Cameron: "I done talking about that. Do you believe lying is wrong?"

*Evilutionist picks up tiny model dinosaurs and calmly grinds out his own eyes.*

Black Kirk Cameron: "Where do you think you'll go when you die, heaven or hell?"

Part V.

Evilutionist: "Damn you, fools!! You have discovered the hundred and fifty year plot, to make beastiality legal through informed debate over the fossil record!"

Creationist 1: "I knew this day would come."

Evilutionist: *Horns sprout, and his eyes become as red as blood. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a baby and bites its head off.*

Creationist 1: Removes his masks, and reveals his true identity: Charleton Heston. "Now, I'll send you hell spawn back to the Godless planet of the ape-men that I, Moses, so heroically escapeded from!"

Evilutionist: (Hissing with a snakes tongue) "You'll never stop me and my Anti-American-Apple-Pie-Pro-Sodomy-new-age-ism agenda!"

Chaleton Heston: Pulls out a loaded .44 bible."See you in hell..... from Heaven." Then blows away the evilutionist, unicorn and the Pillsbury doughboy.

So,

Can you guess which parts are true?

Answer: The only true part is the unicorn.... and Evilutionist's girl friend being hot. Overall this museum was informative, and by informative I mean non-informative.

Other great quotes:

"Animals turn into gas." - when asked why there weren't poly-striate animal fossils in rock layers, but only fossil plants.

"Dr. Hovind is a real respected scientist." Not true.

"He taught high school biology for 15 years" - When told that "Dr." Hovind is not a scientist, nor does he have a real degree, nor has he ever published a scientific paper, and that he has repeatedly made comments that show he has no concept of basic biology and physics. (I didn't inform him that he also is a tax evader. i.e. a felon.)

"You sometimes can't find the evidence you want." - when asked why fossils, specifically pollens, are sorted taxonmonically in the rock layers and not found mixed together.

"For the greater good." - Justifying why it's okay for the museum to display incorrect information immediately after being told about absolute immorality of lying.

"The universe is actually smaller than it appears because gravity is making it look larger." - ?!

"The ice age needed to be -600 degrees in order to freeze the mammoth's stomach contents." - Absolute zero is -459 F. At which point, all movement would cease. Atoms and subatomic particles would collapse in upon themselves, and the mammoth would not be preserved.

PostScript -- Ignorant died. After hearing that what was keeping atoms together was only a theory, his atoms flew apart.

Sin City

I bought Sin City on Tuesday. Anybody want to come over and watch it? Furthermore, my friend Ashley stopped in at Best Buy the other day, and we came up with some great complementary comments to accompany "digital entertainment". For example, "multiplayer games". Or, next time you mention to a friend, "yeah, so I enjoyed some fine digital entertainment last night," and they reply, "oh, did you watch a movie," you can respond with, "well, first I did - the new XXX." Anyone in on the joke will be doubled over with hysterics, and anyone not cool enough will, at worst, wonder why you'd waste an evening with Ice Cube, when it would just be more fun to watch some porn and masturbate. ;)

Tadaima bitches!!!

I'm back!!!!!!!! Hooray for the internet!! I think it missed me. Also, the Charter guy was kinda cute AND he gave me free TV. Which means that we are paying $20 a month for 6 months of cable AND internet and then $40 a month after that. I just hope I don't get arrested........

Also...Hagen just left me for Korea *sniff*. I'm dealing with it surprisingly well. I think in a few days when I realize that I can't call him or access him via AIM at my convenience it may get to me. Bah!!! But I will come and visit him in January!!! And then we are going to Japan!!! Who knows, this year without Hagen may turn out to be good for me in the end. Or something.

Alright...well, I'm going to Milwaukee until Wednesday, but then I will be back. So if anyone wants to hang out after that....let me know, the internet works now too along with my phone! Also....Bito! When are you coming to get the stuff in my kitchen. I don't mind if it stays, but I thought you might want it or something. Internet me o phoneless wonder!

Take care everyone!!
~Sari

Tentative Plans Update!

Great to be back (and by back i mean stoned, but i promise not as stoned).

So i know all of you have been thinking to yourselves, "gee, how come Jess never knows what the hell is going on in her life? She's so spontaneous and never makes plans." Well, you're right. That's why this is a tentative update.

You see, since our lease is up we had to fill out a form for our apartment stating when we intended to leave. Since Andy's trying to get to Texas by October, Lisa's going to do volunteer work in Costa Rica, and Ian is likely moving to Seattle on a whim, there will be no one here for me to roommate with. Thus we gave the notice to be out by November 31st, to give us 1 month in case things go horribly wrong. This means that I will likely be leaving my job by the end of November (hooray!) and that also means that I have to quick decide what i'm going to be doing.

So, here's what i'm thinking: I now plan on taking a month long retirement and coming back home to good ol' Wisconsin. Hopefully I'll be able to sucker my parents into giving me food and money if I promise to tutor my little brother, and also convince them that I'm studying for my GRE's which may or may not end up being true. This way I can live for free, eat good food, see all my pals (except jo, but i'll be thinking of you as i eat my kimchee jjiggae ) and maaaabye make money and come out ok in the end? Granted, I'll have to put up w/ nosy questions from mom and jenny, and more blather about marriage, but i think i'll find a way to handle it (hopefully by finding my local dealer lol)

Then, if I take my GREs and do well, I can go to school in Texas for my masters. This will also give me some time to brace myself for the horror that is College Station.

So yeah, that's what's goin on. The only matters left to deal with then, are how i'm going to move home and then move again to texas? I wonder if I should first drive to texas, get a roundtrip plane ticket home, but have my return date not be for a whole month. Then again, I don't want to have to depend on mom's minivan to get back and forth from Madison (she never lets me borrow her car!). Maybe I should just drive there. Anyone up for a roadtrip that can afford a 1-way ticket out here? :D

~j

Ways to meet single ladies

Earlier this week I read an article about ways to meet single ladies. One interesting way was to goto a gun range. Hitting on a woman with a gun might be dangerous. Another way was to attend Yoga classes. I always wanted try yogo but I heard all that stretching and stuff may induce farting. Now that would be embarrassing.

Tom

This is the best post ever

Um, I wrote this last night, but my wireless (actually, the neighbor's wireless) quit on me so it never posted. It's kinda embarassing now that i look at it. Well, here goes . . .

I had a weird dream, but i'm not going to tell you what it is right now bcz itd be too rambly and i only can tell you that it ends with a guy's head being chewed off by a big wolf and i scare it off by yelling at it and me going for help. Unfortunately in the block of town we were in this neighborhood was made up of these weird condo/apartment-like place here there were no inhabitants because these were a series of "model" homes so all the rooms were the same and with all the same furniture but nobody lived there. Truly bizzare . . .

Gah but i wasn't going to tell you about my dream, i just wanted to tell you the ending but I didn't even tell you the ending i just gave you background on the ending. Oh well, that will have to wait for another time after I've long forgotten just what that memory entailed (just suffice to know there's also a strange part about granny slave labor and magic witchcraft cookies)

Right now i was going to tell you that the code word is "a bloody cheeto comin out of a flea's butt," at least that's what lisa said. This ever so secret code word will get you into many a prestigous your roommate's bathroom to smoke "Jesus's Blessed Holy Basil" and look at glo-in-the-dark jelly fish and lizard and get a tour of the "that corner" where the variety of indian soaps and large stack of National Geographics is.

it is a goood corner, "that."

I was going to watch a movie with the roommates but they're too happy that Jesus blessed the land with such goodness as um, i guess i was gonna say holy basil again but i got sidetracked (i was starin at the bag . . .)I think i want a mochi. in fact, yes, i want a mochi. but i ate the last one yesterday. mmmm mochi. which reminds me . . .

ok i just reminded andy to go get me ice cream. Its not the mochi ice cream dumpling goodness, alas, but it is ben & jerrys which i guess if i were to have a something instead of mochi that ben&jerrys is ok. hurray ice cream!

I was gonna tell you something . . . mmmm . . . didn't realize i smoked that much. wow. That was what i was going to tell you, by the way. that's what i remembered, not a justification for why i couldn't remember. this is slowly turning the best into the worst post ever. So i will end with

hey! my ice cream's here!!! weee!

They almost got me!

Man, those public radio pledge drives sure can get to you. I already gave KCRW 100 of my dollars in February, and they almost got me to do it again yesterday, but I resisted--alas, no money :( --and now that the pledge drive is over, I feel a mixture of guilty but still ok bcz I don't have money after buying that car. But man, I really wanted that 5-CD pack and a chance to win an Apple iBook or a Mini Cooper convertible . . .

All the same, I don't think I could plug this radio station enough. It's KCRW!!! Great music from 9am-12pm Pacific (that's 11am to 2pm for you Wisconsinites) and also later at night. Listen on line at www.kcrw.com They were the first to play a whole crapload of popular artists, none of which i can think of at the moment (Beck perhaps? Tori Amos? Maybe even Coldplay? I forget . . .)

streaming and now podcasting! just go!

ok, my first post at the new blog...

so some of u have mentioned friendster... which i am a part of... gimme your friendster usernames!!! i need more friendsters... not enough of my friends use it, so i look like a loser with only 20 something friendsters... boo, and those of u who aren't on it, move those asses!!! it's not as addictive as this blog is, trust!

The home stretch

I have only 6 more months at most left to work in this ungodly hellhole called Riverside. I'm supposed to turn in a self-evaluation of my work performance today, but Chode That Is Plagued by Oozing Sores and Urine Pustules (i.e. my supervisor) hasn't come in to read and sign it for me.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, as I'm not sure what he'll think of my review, but I donno. Maybe it'll help, since I try as nicely as possible to address the fact that he has given me no direction or idea of his expectations since i started working here. Then again, I kind of feel like bringing it up so late in my contract will make him suspicious that I haven't been doing anything in the meantime. I don't know. I guess it has to be done tho.

oi.

watch this video, you know you have nothing better to do.

this video.....is simply awesome....may it inspire us all.

watch it now and be amazed.

(this is the caption under said video)

"Matt travels around the world and dances. Quit his old job of a programmer to do this. "

posting videos

lookie lookie what i found.....



who's got a digital camera?(i do) we could have some fun.

Until Friday....

Dad's making me move today because he doesn't want to deal with moving at the same time as other people, so I have to say goodbye until the 19th when Charter decides to come hook up cable for me. So....have a good week I guess. I may finally lose my mind with the boredom of no internet and motivate myself to a computer lab, but I think I may be able to keep myself occupied enough to endure the week.

At any rate, I'll talk to you soonish...and I may be sad when I get back (as a warning).

Love and kisses,
Sari

don't forget! it's now www.landofthewicked.blogspot.com

If you're here, you made it! Comment or something so i know you're with me!

The deed is done

Welcome to www.landofthewicked.blogspot.com!!!

I hope you guys didn't get lost on the way . . . I did give a week's warning, plus an email reminder. But I know you some of you guys all too well.

Someone let Dennis know since he tends to be truant, and Lelah as well for that matter; she's been missing since her first post.

Comment if you've arrived!

:)

~j

hahaha

right now i'm at work, searching on the internet for a job for fall/spring/etc.

lol

that is all.

Gun show tickets!!!

Lastnight I was watching Rescue Me on our TiVo and from that show I heard the best ice-breaker, pick-up line ever. Mike who is one of the characters in Rescue Me asked one of the girls if they have tickets for the show? This scene took place at a gay house party. Obviously, the girls said, "What tickets?" Mike responded "Tickets for the gun show" while flexing his left bicep. That's so hilarious!!!! I should use that line when I have bizillas.

Tom

Do it!

i fully realize that posting this quiz may result in a flood quizes being posted and thus responded to on this blog, but i am willing to take that risk.

months ago i did this quiz in while in Glasgow and i really liked it(it was pretty short too).....and discovered that i was a vampire...hmmm...so that explains why in the past I was always up at night and sleeping during the day.....



You are Form 9, Vampire: The Undying.

"And The Vampire was all that remained on
the blood drowned creation. She attempted to
regrow life from the dead. But as she was
about to give the breath of life, she was
consumed in the flame of The Phoenix and the
cycle began again."

Some examples of the Vampire Form are Hades (Greek)
and Isis (Egyptian).
The Vampire is associated with the concept of
death, the number 9, and the element of fire.
Her sign is the eclipsed moon.

As a member of Form 9, you are a very realistic
individual. You may be a little idealistic,
but you are very grounded and down to earth.
You realize that not everything lasts, but you
savor every minute of the good times. While
you may sometimes find yourself lonely, you
have strong ties with people that will never be
broken. Vampires are the best friends to have
because they are sensible.


Which mythological creature are you?

Need abzillas

I have been keeping track of my weight since forever now and now I am like 180lbs. I have been going to the gym for awhile now and I got to admit that I do look good. However, I don't have abzillas or a six pack yet. I wondering if I am eatting too much carbs or do I need to do more cardio? If I do more cardio my muscle mass will disappear. Must have abzillas!!! Do you guys have any workout suggestions?

tee hee!

As you might have noticed, i've been messing around w/ the blog template, seeing what happens when i change a few letters and numbers here and there, and lo! I've changed the blog's default font to purple! Now, if only i could remember what i did . . .


Don't forget, jezebel777.blogspot.com soon becomes landofthewicked.blogspot.com!! I'm changing it Friday!

~j

My employment sucks!!!

I probably mentioned this before but I am getting very upset with my current employment. Working close to 50-52 hours a week and getting paid like $6000 a year is starting to piss me off. At this rate, I am never going to be a bonify prospect for the ladies. I think am going to leave my brother's company next April or May and go back to school. Sorry for those who have to read about my bitching but I am just getting frustrated considering that I know a community college graduate earned more than me in the last two years and I went to a Big Ten college and not to mention the stress level!!! Several times now where I could not sleep until 3am because of the stress and I workout during those nights. Normally, a good workout helps me sleep. I have to talk to my brother about this very soon.

Women and their fascination for older guys!!!

Last night, I went to gym like I normally do on a monday night and talked to a couple a guys. One of the guys named John was telling stories about this one girl who is pretty hot and in damn good shape and wow, it was a bad story. I don't know her name but for right now I will refer to her as Jane. So, John was telling met that Jane loves to date and do the Monkey Dance with older guys and I am like, what the hell? Jane is like 22 or 23 years old!!!! He was saying that Jane was hitting on his 36-38 year old friend at a bar in St.Charles. Of course it did not lead to anything because she found out he was married and throughout that night she gave him ugly and nasty looks. Just to make sure the rumor was true, I asked Tony, who is another friend of mine at the gym, about Jane and her fascination for older guys. Tony assured me that the rumor was true because Tony's friends who are close to their thirties, followed her home one night and Jane knowing that they followed her home put on a teased show while they were outside her home. To be more specific, she undressed in front of her window with the curtains closed but lights on and started dancing and touching herself eroticly.

So...ladies...what's with the fascination of older guys? Throw me a freakin bone!!!

The Old Man and the Sea

Sunday, I went with Daniel (the 33-year-old man mentioned previously) to Devil's Lake, where we picniced, frisbeed, and swam across Devil's Lake. Yes, maybe it was the shortest possible route, but we did finally swim the lake. I felt so good about myself! Then, he asked me out again. This denial was without the influence of alcohol, so I think it will effect a conclusion. There will be no touching! In the same line, I seriously considered making myself a button for work that says, "If you are under 23 or over 26 years of age, please do not hit on me." If I had 20 bucks for every 19-year-old or 35-year-old that asked me out, it would make up for all the scheduling cut-backs this past year. A spot of good news, though - I interviewed for clerical work with a temp agency today, and they told me there should be a steady flow of temporary positions in the downtown area coming my way. Semblance of fiscal security, here I come!

yeah baby, it's all about the R&R

so i just thought i'd update you guys on some stuff that's been going on with me... it might be boring to some of you though... TOUGH!

well, some of u might know that I renewed my contract at KBS (where i work--biggest tv system in korea) but recently i was offered a job at Arirang (an english cable tv network) to be a reporter and announcer for Radio... but i turned it down, because even though that is way closer to my ultimate goal, KBS is like the mother of all tv in korea and asia, andi feel like i would need to stay here... stay it out...

they keep saying that they will make some kind ofenglish news program... but up till now, those have just been words... but i figure, if i stay and show my loyalty.. something good should come of it... RIGHT?

waddaya think? what would u guys do?

Cubs game and recon mission?

Kate, the girl that I am trying to date but cannot because she has a boyfriend, is going to help John and me get Cubs tickets for one of the games later this week but now John does not want to go. I think she planned on going with us but since John does not want to go I think the situation would be kind of weird. God dammit, I got to convince John to go with me. I am thinking about not going now because of the awkwardness but then again, this would be a perfect situation to findout the status of her relationship with her boyfriend and possibly meet her other girlfriends. Must convince John to go with me. By the way, I just got a haircut and now I am dashingly goodlooking.

Definitely Prettier Than Kate's Boyfriend,
Tom

Ow! My most of me!!!

Yes, i FINALLY went surfing on saturday!
It was a 1-day class offered by the Rec Center and I went w/ a couple people from my lab.

it was TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! So much fun.

I did, however become really dehydrated and felt pretty crappy all of yesterday and this morning, plus, my sunblock washed off pretty quick, leaving me with a really bad wet-suit tan, not to mention tomato face. I don't have any pictures bcz i was too busy eating sand, but here's a pretty good artistic rendition of what i look like:

And here's me wiping out, as I did so very very often:

Yes, that is the surfboard hitting me in the face. Although that never actually happened, it gives you a pretty good idea of how badly i wiped out (remember, it's an artistic rendition) as i basically got hit by my surfboard everywhere else on my body. I collided w/ some other ppl a few times, got dragged under and flipped around like every other time, and once I even ran over a jelly fish.

It was amazing. I definitely need to do this again before I go. Maybe next time, I'll even be able to stand up on the surfboard!

~j

Landofthewicked.blogspot it is!

I've gotten good feedback from most of you about changing the web address to landofthewicked.blogspot.com so let's do it!

I'll give everyone a week or so to get the word around, and then change it next week Friday.

hooray!

~j

fer christ's sake!

OK OK! Here I am. Happy now? jeSUS :) nothing much to report here. Had a girlfriend. Broke up with her. Back to normal now. And no, I haven't read all these entries yet so you're gonna have to hold off on that. I don't have internet at my house right now so I don't think I'm going to get to read them for a while. Hope you are all doing well!

The Waiting Game

I finally sent Lauren an email, stating how I ran into Mary at the gym. Of course, I had to ask if she remembered me or not and if this is actually the Lauren Gibson of EHS, not some stranger. Shockingly, Lauren Gibson is a very common name. Now, it is matter of her responding. The wait begins.

hmm

I'm thinking of changing the web address to LandOfTheWicked.blogspot

This is bcz i post a lot abt. my family and i don't really want one of them to google my nickname and get this blog.

And also, it'll be a nicer, more logical name since that's the name of the site.

Let me know what you think. I promise I won't change it on you w/out your opinions first!

~j

"It just makes me sad."

That's what my sister Jen told Julie about the fact that I'm not married yet.

I mean, she's actually disappointed in me for not being married, and for "making up all these excuses."

. . .

Yeah.

. . .

God, I just wanna say to her, "you know, if you want me to get married so FUCKING bad, how bout YOU plan it." I swear to god, these people just need to STOP OVERREACTING!!!!

Well, whatever. I just needed to vent about that. I'm gonna try not to let it get to me anymore. I mean, it's her own fucking fault it makes her "sad," since she's the one who can't see that it isn't a big deal.

eeesh.

~j

Recon Mission

Talking to my friend James, who lives with us and is one of my boss, I think I have to do a little bit more investigating on Kate as in finding out more information about her relationship with her boyfriend. For those of you who does not what's going on, well...Kate is a girl that I am trying to date but cannot because she has a boyfriend. I am intrigued by the relationship because I am like why not just move in with the boyfriend instead of buying or renting a condo by herself? Though, the boyfriend may live with her someday. Then again, she did say that she wanted to live in Chicago, regardless. The truth may hurt, however, we can still be friends and perhaps I can meet some of her hot girlfriends.

Still Prettier Than Kate's Boyfriend,
Tom

It is over

It is over. Several days ago, I found out, in an indirect way, that Kate, the girl that I meet at gym and a high school classmate of mine, has a boyfriend. Jeezzz, that's like three Kate's I know and cannot date. I think, from now on, I should try hard not to date any girls that are name Kate or Katie.

On the flip side of things, Kate, the same Kate that has a boyfriend, offered to help John and me get Cub's tickets, considering that she knows some people who can get Cub's tickets. So...life is somewhat great.

By the way, I am probably prettier than her boyfriend. After all, 13% of my body mass is only fat while the rest is all muscle and bone. That's what you get for going to the gym 6 days a week and eatting right.

Tom

Something Cookin'

I need some advice from you guys. A couple of months ago, I ran into a very old friend from my Elgin days (Jess, I told you about this) at the gym. By the way, I can bench over 225 lbs. Mary and I talked for awhile, catching up with news of our friends. In talking to her, I found out that Lauren (could, should, would of been the 1st g-friend) is a teacher at West Aurora High School. I have not spoken or seen this girl since 1996, my final semester at Elgin. The following Monday, I decided to look her up at the high school website and of course, her work email address is listed.

I am debating whether or not to drop a very casual email to just say hello. Would that be weird and creepy? Should I do it? Talking to Mary, reminded me of all the fun and care free times of being a freshman before embarking onto the journey of change. I would appreciate any input on this matter.

Gwen Stefani's song: Cool

Gosh, Gwen Stefani's song Cool is in my head. Man, I am starting to wonder about my taste in music.

Tom

Ooh! Ooh!

Sari: Hey!!! OMG, thank you SO much for doing this for me. I hope it's not too much of a hassle to get to payless... But I'm a size 7... so if they have it in a 7, that would be awesome... but on the website, it says they only have the shoe in halves... so if that's the case, a 6.5 is fine... and just in case, here is the website again:


so thank you so much for doing this! Umm, i'll give you my cell phone number, so you can give it to your friend Brian when he gets into Korea: 011-1714-0134

So, I guess I'll just wait for his call... and let him know that I'd be more than happy to show him around Seoul, and take him around to see some stuff and I'll introduce him to some people, if he wants some friends to hang with ^^
(I realize i should have just posted this as a comment, so not everyone has to be a victim to this mindless banter, but oh well, too late! sorry guys!)

Tom: my homepage is a Korean one, so it can get to be a bit confusing if you don't know korean... for the most part, most of my settings are in english... so you u go in, on the right hand side, there are tabs, and one of the bottom ones should say VISITOR... u can go in there and leave a comment... if u still don't get it, just click around and something interesting should pop up!

Steph: Thanks for fixin mah link!

Jess: Thanks for makin this blog... i love it and i'm so happy i can keep in touch with you guys so much easier now!

Sauce: thanks for postin... i almost forgot how much i miss your insanity...post... a LOT... always!

Beuty and The Geek!!!

I read the article about nerds and hot girls and it was quite entertaining. So Sari....HOW ARE YOU DOING!!!? LOL!!!

Hey, Jo, how do I get onto your blog as in posting in your blog?

Tom

link advice

hello everyone-

well, Sari--jess was right in her last post which said that you're link didn't work. however, i fixed it and now it works just fine ;).

the reason why your link didn't work is the same reason why Jo's didn't work.....

ok, you know that little box that pops up after you click the link/globe icon on top the Create Post screen? Where under where it says "Enter URL" there is a space where you can copy and paste whatever URL you want. The thing you have to notice is that there is ALREADY a http:// in that space, so that means if you just paste your entire URL into that box, what you are actually entering is http://http://whatyouwant.blahblah.com, instead of http://whatyouwant.blahblah.com. THAT is what is causing the error.

What i just do is before i copy and paste anything, i clear out that space, and then there is no problem.

till later,

steph

Staying Connected

I am thinking about testing a Voice Over IP software at home, but I will need some help. The last few months, I have been working with applications that allow you to make phone calls over the internet for free and now, I want to try it at home. There are linux software out there that works, but I know Linux is painful. Believe me, I struggled for couple months in trying to get VOIP to work with a linux box (read OFFICE SPACE post). If you have Windows, download skype at www.skype.com. It will be fun to talk and test this software. You will need headphones and a microphone. Please check your security because if you have firewall turned on, it will be difficult to get out.

Nerds Make Better Lovers!

Man...I have so much to do. You guys are all right...moving sucks!!!! But it needs to be done. Along with the 10 other things on my list of things to do that don't get done once I get home from work and don't feel like doing anything. And now apparently I have managed to get a cold in AUGUST...however the hell that works. So.....work should be super awesome for the next week.

I've been meaning to create my own blogspot blog to complement my livejournal and talk about awesome things like all the anime I'm watching and just general stuff. I think I may be addicted to this blog thing. This and facebook take up all of my non-anime watching time these days it seems. And attempting to kindle a relationship with a certain Japanese boy I have my eye on. Weeeeeeee. Wish me luck on that one everyone!!!

Speaking of facebook, we get to the real subject of this post. For those of you who don't know what facebook is, it's pretty much an online visual yearbook of sorts connecting people in a social network at colleges throughout the land. I find it highly addictive and entertaining. Anyway, on facebook you can join a variety of groups, etc. and my latest group addition is a group entitled "nerds make better boyfriends" (though I think we should change the title to "nerds make better lovers" to make this an equal opportunity group). The whole thing is based off of and inspired by this super awesome New York Daily News article. So...as a nerd girl and a damn good one at that...I'm asking you to read the article. It definitely kept me entertained!!

PS. Jo...I'll buy your flip flops and send them with Bri. What size do you need again???

don't worry Jo, Stephanie to the rescue!

with my ever-increasing-Blogger-knowledge, i have fixed the error Jo so now you're link to your site works ;).

and on a TOTALLY different note....ugh....WHY are there so many spiders in our basement(which is the only place in the house where i can get a decent internet connection).....WHY? no matter how many times i or any member of my family kills them, they keep coming back...AHHH.

and on yet another different note....when you start up your computer( your computer = my laptop)....i'm guessing its a really bad sign when you get a black screen with white texts which says "yada yada yada Hardware Failure Imminent yada yada yada press F1.....

This weekend was very long for me b/c i was hosting a friend the whole time (Friday night to Monday afternoon)...and said friend is coming to stay again on Tuesday night before said friend goes back up North...it was exhausting as i noticed that said friend and i no longer had ANYTHING in common and couldn't talk about anything worthwhile for the same reason.....if i get nervous that said person might read find this blog and read this post though i might just go back and delete this paragraph......

oi.

hey yallz!

I updated my blog profile and also... my link to JO's BLOG doesn't work... and it's not really a blog... it's more of a homepage... hum...

My brother's a genius!!!

AJ's latest installment in the "Jen Incognito" series (w/only a little help from me):

Comic book cover courtesy of www.superdickery.com

D-Day...postponed?!

Well, Jason never called me back last night. I left a message on his voicemail that said something like, "What the fuck, man? You can't just never see me again - I have some movies at your place I need to get back. Give me a call." It wasn't bitchy or anything, though. Then, no call today. I want to get this over with, so I stopped by his place. No car in the driveway! I left a Post-It note on his door, asking him to call me so we can re-exchange DVDs. This is beyond bullshit.

your birthday

ok peeps-

using my ever-increasing Blogger knowlege, i wanna create a place in the sidebar which will list when everyone's b-day is.

but, in order to do that.........i need your b-day.

while i do have most of yours, there are a couple that i don't(lelah, sari..mark i have the month but what was the exact date?), so if you could send me that info that would be cool.

btw tom--jess and i we chatting today and we agreed we would fully support your dating-blog. go for it man. go and make us proud.

and john---details man--what's goin on over there?

ok, off i go to watch some Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex at Sari's.....

Thanks Steph, Dating Blog=$$$$$

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for responding Steph. It was great to hear from you. It's true that not everyone enjoy their career. I guest if everyone did, people would be cherrier. But I think I do need to move on and go back to school. Yeah, for sure, look into internships and stuff. I think one of my mistakes after graduating was not being patient enough which lead to my current employment. Be patient, always!!! Perhaps, going back to school and getting a master's degree may provide better career options. Obviously, this may be expensive but an education debt is not bad at all. It may be a worthy investment.

I have been reading some articles in Business Week and google news that blogs are becoming more popular. Hell, this one teenage girl from California is getting rich because her hosted blog website, which she created with one other guy and allows people to create their own blogs, is so popular. And founders of myspace.com, which is website that allows users to create their own webpage but acts more or less acts like a blog, are also rich because a lot of people using their website to create their own blogs. So, I am thinking about creating a dating blog where strangers can talk to strangers, which hopefully leads to a loving relationship, without any fees. Thus, strangers can talk to strangers for free while I collect the advertising money. Yeap, there will be ads. Then again, this idea is not so different than chat rooms. I am going have to do some research on this. Obviously, one of the biggest obstacles is managing the database for this blog and sending matched results to the right people who wished to date but having a hard time finding the right dates like me.

Tom